A prominent capital-markets lawyer, and a former partner at several top law firms — Allen & Overy, Bingham McCutchen, McKee Nelson, Orrick, Milbank Tweed — has been accused by the feds of child pornography distribution.

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He bakes the most wonderful pies I have ever tasted in my life. — McLean resident Joan Bretz, discussing her neighbor Joshua Gessler, the Arnold & Porter associate and George Mason adjunct law professor accused of producing child pornography.

Today brings bad news for Arnold & Porter — or maybe make that Arnold & Porno. If the allegations are true, the venerable Washington-based law firm has been employing a lawyer who made child pornography, starring a 15-year-old girl. A 41-year-old associate in the Tysons Corner office of A&P, Joshua Gessler, has been charged with […]